The Lantean Drone Weapon Discussion Thread

[Qasim]

Spoiler:

Aurora?

[The General]

Spoiler:

Aurora?

And?

Its not like they HAVE to use drones.

Infact, It would make no sense to place a depleatable weapon on a ship that can mount Ammoless weapons like a laser.

[Qasim]

We know nothing at all about the ship at the moment so we cant speculate on what would be sensible and what wouldnt

[Three PhDs]

And?

Its not like they HAVE to use drones.

Infact, It would make no sense to place a depleatable weapon on a ship that can mount Ammoless weapons like a laser.

Lasers do have ammunition, it's called energy.

[The General]

Lasers do have ammunition, it's called energy.

Of which the ancients are in no short supply in any respect.

And energy is not an ammunition. It can be used for so much more than a weapon.

[Three PhDs]

And energy is not an ammunition. It can be used for so much more than a weapon.

So what does the laser weapon fire? What is depleted when it fires?

[The General]

So what does the laser weapon fire? What is depleted when it fires?

No.

May I refffer you to Dictionary.com.

[Qasim]

Considering that we dont use laser weapons here on Earth I doubt the dictionary would have much to say about them

[The General]

True, but it is rather specific.

In this scenario, I think energy would be more of an fuel than a ammunition.

[Qasim]

It would still get depleted though

[McKavanaugh forever!]

Energy would be both fuel and ammunition, it needs energy to power it and it also needs energy to fire.

[The General]

But it doesn't technically count as "ammo."

And it technically doesn't count as "fuel" either, so we are both wrong.

[EnigmaNZ]

Laser, google coil laser, the megawatt chemical laser used in the 747 to kill icbm's, it has enough chemicals to fire 40 times iirc. A smaller 100Kw version is being installed on the latest spectre AC-130 (hercules with a 105mm howitzer, 40mm cannon, 20mm gatling gun, and now a 100Kw laser) Also google solid state laser , the version the air force is working on to fit to the joint strike fighter in it's 100Kw version. It will be powered by a generator running off the main turbine, and will dump waste heat into the fuel tanks. A 100Kw laser will cut through 1/2 inch of steel per second at ranges in the 6-8 Km range (weather permitting). It should be able to kill goa'uld and wraith fighters. And as long as it has electrical power, it works. Another is the tactical high energy laser, being developed by the israelis with US help, to shot down missiles and rockets and even mortars and shells. It is chemical but different to the coil laser, and can fire 60 times before reloading. Another chemical is the mid infrared advanced chemical laser (MIRACL). Happy googling.

Drones, interesting little buggers. gravimetric propulsion, highly manuevurable, seem to be able to seek out the ships weak points and hit them to cause maximum damage. I think they seek out the main reactor, hit that and the resulting explosion takes out the ship. Ha'taks have 1 big central naquadah generator, hit that and BOOM! Possible defence is to do a Borg, and have large numbers of small generators distributed around the ship. Hitting one does localised damage only. As to shield piercing, either all shields work on the same principle, and the drone looks for the frequency window that allows the ship to recieve sensor data, or it uses something like the tollen phase shifting tech, that allows it to slide past shields and armour, then phase back into normal space once inside the hull. It certainly had no difficulty passing through the thick armour of a ha'tak or aubis's supership.

[The General]

As for the original question.

A list of so far observed features.

-Exreeme(sp?) manuverability
-Pinpoint seeking
-Warhead
-Disintegration effect
-Shield effect

[Qasim]

The correct spelling is Extreme